Waterproof garment-supporter.



I. PHILLIPS. WATERPROOF GAIRMENT SUPPORTER- APPLICATION FILED JULY 3:.1916.

1,292,042 Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

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ISIDOR PHILLIPS, 0F BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATERPROOF GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

Application filed July 31, 1916. Serial No. 112,301.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ismon PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Waterproof Garment-Supporter, of which the following, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide iron-moisture-absorbing garment or wearing apparel supports, such as suspenders, garters, or the like, which are lined or covered on the surfaces lying nearest or adjacent to the body of the wearer with impervious material, or are otherwise coated or treated to repel and resist the absorption of moisture coming into contact therewith, especially from the perspiration of the body of the wearer,it being a known fact that the ordinary types of garment suspenders are neither lined nor treated to be non-moisture-absorbing, and are thus consequently affected by perspiration penetrating the same, which renders them damp and odorous and makes them feel sticky and uncomfortable to the wearer, creating thereby an unsanitary condition as well as subjecting the material of the same, or of the garments coming in contact therewith, to the possibility of becoming discolored, faded, or otherwise spoiled.

To overcome these objectionable features of the ordinary types of garment supports, and to provide lasting and sanitary garment supports which will prove comfortable to the wearer, (especially in warm weather when the body perspires freely) is the purpose of my invention.

To these as well as other ends, my invention consists of the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the sub joined claims.

The terms employed herein are used in the generic and descriptive sense, andtherefore are not primarily terms of limitation.

Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawing,

Figure 1 represents an ordinary suspender for trousers, showing the same supplied with two of my types of non-moisture-absorbing coverings on the under sides of the shoulderstraps thereof.

Fig. .2 represents a wow showing the back of a pair of trousers suspenders, each shoulder-strap thereof being supplied with a different type of waterproof lining.

Fig. 3 represents a sectional view taken on lines 3-3, Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4 represents a sectional View taken on lines 55, Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 represents a sectional View taken on lines 66, Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 represents a modified view of a suspender attachment, showing the buttonholecord, which may be of elastic or non-elastic material, covered by a non-moisture-absorbing covering.

Fig. 7 represents a modified type of non moisture-absorbing covering which may be used for covering elastic. material, either for shoulder-straps, or buttonhole-loops of suspenders, or for elastic bands of garters, for permitting the stretching of the same.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

In the specific embodiments of the invention, which are namely, trousers supports and garters, the numeral 1 in its entirety represents a pair of trousers suspenders, which is supplied with the shoulder-straps 2 and 3, united at 4 by stitching Or other suitable means. 5 represents the back-straps which have the buttonhole-tabs 5 and are secured to y I the joining section 4 of the suspenders. 7

arc the ordinary adjusting buckles used with suspenders, for varying the lengths of the shoulder-straps. 8 represents front-straps which are resilient or non-resilient, accord ing as may be desired, and are joined to the ends of the shoulder-straps by means of the coupling-loops 9 and terminate in the buttonhole-tabs 10.

11 represents a non-moisture-absorbing shoulder-strap-lining, which, when the shoulder-strap is made up of non-elastic webbing, may be stitched or adhcsively secured to the underside of the shoulder-strap,

and may be made up'of any suitable waterproof material (elastic or otherwise), such as rubber, rubberized or oil-treated fabric or silk, or any other suitable impervious material. When the shoulder-strap is made of elastic webbing, the lining 11 ma be associated therewith, preferably by stitching or otherwise suitably securing the same thereto at intervals as indicated by 12, and should be made up of elastic material which is impervious, such as thin rubber sheeting or the lik Q oth r suita ly treated m i l,

which is both of an impervious nature and elastic as well.

In a similar manner (as for example 11 the lining 11 may be allowed to overlap the edges 13 of the shoulder-straps to form the laps 14 on the outer sides thereof, and may be secured thereto in a similar manner to that explained hereinabove in the case of the lining 11 associated with the shoulderstrap 2, according as to whether the lining 11 is to be associated with elastic or nonelastic webbings.

15 is a telescoping non-moisture-absorbing covering which may be used to cover elastic buttonhole-straps 8, back-straps 5, or shoulder-straps, preferably for the buttonhole-straps S and the back-straps 5, since the covering may be made up of non-elastic impervious material which will permit the required amount of play within it for the inclosed elastic material, making up the back-straps and the buttonhole-straps of the suspenders. It may be here noted that a non-elastic telescoping covering 15 may be used with non-resilient shoulder-straps; and instead of usin webbings with the same, ordinary felt or uckram, or other such suitable fillers may be used which will pro duce a very efficient waterproof strap for garment suspenders and the like.

16 represents a buttonhole-cord which may be madeof elastic or non-elastic material, according as may be desired, and may be covered by the telescoping-tubularcovering 17, which also may be made of any suitable impervious material, such as rubber, oil-silk, oil-cloth, or the like. 18 represents a waterproof covering for the type of buttonhole-straps 19 shown in Fig. 2.

In Fig. 7, 23 represents an elastic webbing which may be used either for the various parts of trouser-suspenders or for the leg band of garters, and is shown supplied with a modified type of waterproof-covering 24:

which may or may not be madeof elastic material; the same being supplied with the loops 25 which stretch across the front of the webbing 23 and hold the lining 24 properly secured thereto,it being understood here that when the lining 24 is made ofnonelastic impervious material and is associated with an. elastic webbing 23, that the latter is enabled to freely stretch and contract within said lining 24.

Having thus described the parts of the aforesaid specific embodiments of my invention in detail, it will be understood that by associating a waterproof covering with the body-bearing surfaces of garment or wearing apparel supports, such as suspenders or garters, the same will prevent them from becoming damp, odorous, or otherwise affected by, perspiration from the body of the wearer.

It may also be observed that the use of waterproof linings or coverings associated with garment or wearing apparel supports does not in any way impair the working features or the wearing qualities thereof; but on the other hand renders the same more sanitary and more comfortable than the ordinary types of garment or wearing apparel supports, without increasing the cost of manufacture thereof, and at the same time reinforcing the supports so that they become more durable and lasting than garment supports lacking said non-moistureabsorbing feature.

While the preferred embodiments of my invention have been described in detail, it will be understood that I do not wish to be limited to the particular construction set forth, since various changes in the form,

material, proportions, and arrangement of parts, and in the details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, or destroying-any of the advantages contained in the same, heretofore described and defined inclosing said suspender and lying adjacent to the body of the wearer.

2. A garment support having a waterproof covering, the edges of said covering arranged to overlap the edges of the support. 7

3. A garment support having a waterproof covering, the edges of said covering.

arranged to overlap the edgesof the support and a web for connecting said edges.

ISIDOR PHILLIPS. Witnesses B. H. OHERTOK, R. LICHTENSTEIN.

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Washington, D. 0. 

